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Definition
totally unlikely- "Unthinkable! Inconceivable! Absurd! He could never be made into marshmallows!"Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
inconceivable = so totally unlikely it is hard to imagine it could be so
- A decade ago, the idea of an organic garden at the White House would have seemed inconceivable.Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
- We endured hard times with hopes and dreams of doing the inconceivable.Willie & Korie Robertson -- The Duck Commander Family
- This substance has inconceivable properties and can be created only by a mind that is highly tuned to a deeply focused state.Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
- The white, narrow road flashed out of the foreground, slipped with inconceivable rapidity under the car.Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
- The idea was inconceivable to her.Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
- How inconceivably strange and beautiful it was for Venters to see Bess clasped to Jane Withersteen's breast!Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage
- The happiness before him appeared so inconceivable that if only he could attain it, it would be the end of all things.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- Max and YaYa were thrown back with inconceivable force.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- I found it quite inconceivable at this point to enter into the mind of the murderer.Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
- He remembered that monstrous eye in its buried vault-but no, that was inconceivable.Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
- To me it was inconceivable.Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
- My mind, with inconceivable rapidity followed out all the consequences of such a death.Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
- It was inconceivable that he should have hurt a woman.Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!
- It is inconceivable that any great store of Eldunari might be lying hidden somewhere, ready to help us if we could but locate them.Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
- Sophia, confused as she was, answered this bombast (and very properly I think) with a look of inconceivable disdain.Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
- Everything was so clear before him, all he had aimed at so long within reach at last, and now his inconceivable stupidity had erected this new obstacle.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- One by one, Ronnie watched them crawling past, thinking them so incredibly small that survival seemed almost inconceivable.Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song
- The utterly inconceivable lost its massive inconceivableness.Gish Jen -- Typical American
- Think of the inconceivable bad taste, in the circumstances, of that fellow making free with the house—or coming there at all!Henry James -- Washington Square